Every administrator knows that it is bad etiquette to add their own username to the domain admin group. However, it can be tempting to do so in order to run common administrative tasks from your PC. With the following batch file, you will be prompted for the domain admin password, but you will act as a standard user while running administrative tools at your desktop.
Start the process with these first two steps:
- Install the adminpak.msi file off your server CD onto your workstation PC.
- Get the 'choice.exe' file off the Win2k resource kit and put in the same directory as the script below. It will work in a Win2k3 or Win2k domain.
In the following script, replace [domain] with your domain name:
@echo off
@echo
:BEGIN
CLS
echo.
echo. "What would you like to work on today master?"
echo.
echo.
@echo off
echo 1 = "Users & Computers"
echo 2 = "AD SItes and Services"
echo 3 = "AD Domains and Trusts"
echo 4 = DNS
echo 5 = DHCP
echo 6 = "Group Policy"
echo 7 = Quit
CHOICE /N /C:1234567 PICK A NUMBER (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7)%1
REM - THE NEXT THREE LINES ARE DIRECTING USER DEPENDING UPON INPUT
IF ERRORLEVEL ==7 GOTO SEVEN
IF ERRORLEVEL ==6 GOTO SIX
IF ERRORLEVEL ==5 GOTO FIVE
IF ERRORLEVEL ==4 GOTO FOUR
IF ERRORLEVEL ==3 GOTO THREE
IF ERRORLEVEL ==2 GOTO TWO
IF ERRORLEVEL ==1 GOTO ONE
:one
runas /user:[domain]Administrator "mmc C:WINDOWSsystem32dsa.msc"
GOTO END
:two
runas /user:[domain]Administrator "mmc C:WINDOWSsystem32dssite.msc"
GOTO END
:three
runas /user:[domain]Administrator "mmc C:WINDOWSsystem32domain.msc"
GOTO END
:four
runas /user:[domain]Administrator "mmc C:WINDOWSsystem32dnsmgmt.msc"
GOTO END
:five
runas /user:[domain]Administrator "mmc C:WINDOWSsystem32dhcpmgmt.msc"
GOTO END
:six
runas /user:[domain]Administrator "mmc C:WINDOWSsystem32gpmc.msc"
GOTO END
:seven
GOTO END
:END
exit
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